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| PSYC0061-1 | Experimental psychology of animal cognition
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | André Ferrara |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | Topic of this 2007-08 academic year : study of animal memory in a human-animal comparative perspective . |
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| Course objective : | The reading course will concerns a specific aspect of the memory as, for example, serial position effects / chuncking / memory span / adaptive forgetting / recognition memory / episodic-like memory / etc.
Through this work, student must :
- show a good understanding of methodological aspects (memory evaluation procedure, possible biases, limitations, etc.),
- confront the experimental data to theoretical explanations,
- analyze these results in a human-animal comparative perspective.
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| Organization : | 30 hours. First semester. |
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| Written notes : | Animal cognition I : Memory mechanisms (chapter 10). In Michel Domjan (2006). The Principles of Learning and Behavior. Fifth Edition.
For the reading course, bibliographical sources will be specified in consultation with the course holder (deadline : mid-october). |
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| Assessment : | Oral exam. |
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| Contacts : | Ferrara André, Chef de Travaux
ULg - FAPSE
Département des Sciences Cognitives
Boulevard du Rectorat, 5 - Bât.32
4000 Sart Tilman
Tél.: 04/366.22.32
eMail : a.ferrara@ulg.ac.be |
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